Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.
But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these da… - Kathleen Norris
But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these da…
- Kathleen Norris
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world. - Kathleen Norris
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. - Kathleen Norris
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Changing husbands is only changing troubles. - Kathleen Norris
Changing husbands is only changing troubles.
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret. - Kathleen Norris
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship. - Kathleen Norris
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them. - Kathleen Norris
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble th… - Kathleen Norris
For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble th…
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. - Kathleen Norris
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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